Cast overview, first billed only: | |||
William Shatner | ... | Kirk | |
Leonard Nimoy | ... | Spock | |
DeForest Kelley | ... | McCoy | |
James Doohan | ... | Scotty | |
George Takei | ... | Sulu | |
Walter Koenig | ... | Chekov | |
Nichelle Nichols | ... | Uhura | |
Jane Wyatt | ... | Amanda | |
Catherine Hicks | ... | Gillian | |
Mark Lenard | ... | Sarek | |
Robin Curtis | ... | Lt. Saavik | |
Robert Ellenstein | ... | Federation Council President | |
John Schuck | ... | Klingon Ambassador | |
Brock Peters | ... | Admiral Cartwright | |
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Michael Snyder | ... | Starfleet Communications Officer |
The most acclaimed Star Trek adventure of all time with an important message. It is the 23rd century, and a mysterious alien probe is threatening Earth by evaporating the oceans and destroying the atmosphere. In their frantic attempt to save mankind, Admiral Kirk and his crew must time travel back to 1986 San Francisco where they find a world of punk, pizza and exact-change buses that are as alien to them as anything they have ever encountered in the far-off reaches of the galaxy. William Shatner and Leonard Nimoy return as Kirk and Spock, along with the entire Star Trek crew. Written by Robert Lynch <docrlynch@yahoo.com>
This one is great-I remember laughing my butt off the first time I saw it, and it still works now. Very well done, the time travel angle was better handled here then it has been in other Trek films, shows, etc.-and one thing that makes this work is that they didn't take themselves too seriously. What a romp! The crew come back to save the whales so they can save themselves in the future-and make some commentary on 1986, too.
Personally I donno if this is the best of the run-Undiscovered Country and Khan are its main competition-but I applaud them for doing this; and hope they can lighten up the newer generation too now. It is needed.
*** outta ****, good stuff.